Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real; but it sits atop an older struggle, between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan: a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam. Now, Tamim ...(展开全部)

Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real; but it sits atop an older struggle, between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan: a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam. Now, Tamim ...(展开全部)

大卫 ·戈德布拉特生于1965年，现在英格兰莱斯特的德蒙福特大学和美国洛杉矶的匹泽学院任教。 他出版了多本备受赞誉的足球书籍:《足球是圆的》（The Ball is Round,2006)，这是一部惊人的、雄心勃勃的足球全球史；《我们生活的游戏》（The Game of Our Lives,2014），讲述了英国足球的意义和源起，这本书获得了威廉·希尔年度体育图书大奖；《足球国度》（Futebol Nation,2014），这是一部巴西足球的历史。他还编辑过《世界足球年鉴》（The World Football Yearbook），制作了多部体育纪录片，时常给《卫报》和《纽约时报》供稿。

An innovative framework to understanding risk management The Rules of Risk takes the reader from the present to the future of risk management. Combining a novel approach to risk management with the tools of mathematics, finance, computer science, and an understanding of capital markets, authors Dembo and Freeman present their framework of a new risk paradigm that peers into the...(展开全部)

【英】理查德·泰普勒（Richard Templar） 欧美畅销书“泰普勒人生法则系列（Rules）”图书的作者，其人生轨迹丰富多彩，在其30年的工作生涯中，涉猎了诸多领域，在不同企业内负责过不同的工作，现在他自己创业，同时经营几家公司。他的个人成功促使其开启了传道授业解惑的旅程，与大众分享他的成功法则。 据不完全统计，全球有超过240万人在按照他所建议的法则行事。有评论家认为，理查德的文字风格，既不是那种冷硬命令式、听多了让人觉得苛刻的“教科书风格”，也不是温柔多情式、听久了让人觉得黏糊糊的“中央空调风格”，而是一种介于两者之间温暖又不失客观的风格。

在线阅读本书 Some parents make it look so easy. They are eternally calm, have great relationships with their kids, and seem to have parenting down to a fine art. But is this really possible? How do they do it? Have you ever wondered what makes them so good? These parents do many things right but have one thing in common. They know The Rules of Parenting. The set of golden behav...(展开全部)

The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game...a game so complex, so like life itself, that the wi...(展开全部)

Rules perform a moral function by restating moral principles in concrete terms, so as to reduce the uncertainty, error, and controversy that result when individuals follow their own unconstrained moral judgment. Although reason dictates that we must follow rules to avoid destructive error and controversy, rules—and hence laws—are imperfect, and reason also dictates that we ough...(展开全部)